Water Conservation, Competition and Quality in Western Irrigated Agriculture: An Overview of the W-190 Regional Research Project, 1994‐99

Irrigated agriculture in the American West has experienced a variety of problems in respect of the supply, demand, allocation and management of water. In an effort to address some of these issues, a regional research project (W-190) entitled ‘Water Conservation, Competition and Quality in Western Irrigated Agriculture’ was set up in 1994, initially for a five-year period. The papers published in this special issue of IJWRD are the upshot of research conducted to meet the three specific objectives of this project. This paper presents an overview and assessment of research carried out under this project, by objective and by state, during its first five-year period.